Chapter 40: The Bronze Armory (I)
I shouted, "Little master! "Immediately chased down. The stone steps of this dark passage are quite flat when you look at it, I didn't expect it to be so steep when you go down, and I don't have a flashlight, and the cold bench runs away in three or two clicks, and I can only vaguely see a small white dot in the distance.
My chest was throbbing so hard that I could only feel it and jump down one foot at a time, and I didn't have any bottom in my heart. The staircase was quite spacious at first, but the further back on, the smaller the cross-sectional area became, and I couldn't even fit one of my feet.
I looked at the cold bench again, and his flashlight source became smaller and smaller, as if he was about to go underground, and I was in a hurry, and hurriedly shouted: "Don't run so fast, wait for me!" At this time, I didn't pay attention, and suddenly rubbed the ground, and the soles of my feet actually stepped on the air!
I was shocked, and immediately supported the ground with both palms behind me to relieve the pressure of weightlessness, only to hear a muffled sound, my ass bloomed, and the cut of the staircase suddenly cracked in my flesh, and it hurt suddenly, as if it had been cut by a gate knife, and the pain was so painful that Lao Tzu slipped and tears came out!
Fortunately, the palm of my hand was propped back, which made a lot of cushioning, otherwise my pelvis would have broken now. I touched the palm of my hand in the dark, and there was a circle of gauze wrapped in the middle of the palm of my left hand, which was sticky and sticky, as if the opening inside was broken and bleeding; There was nothing wrong with my right palm, but I felt a deep groove in the middle, which was the same one I had just scratched on the staircase, but fortunately there was no bleeding. I gritted my teeth, tightened the gauze on my left hand, and quickly got up and chased after him.
At this time, I suddenly found that the small white dot below seemed to stop there and not move, I was stunned in my heart, and my heart said, the cold bench is already in the end? hurriedly shouted: "Little master, what's down there?" "It seems to be very deep down there, and my voice still echoes. I became more and more curious, and I quickened my pace as I touched the wall.
This stone step goes down at an angle of 45 degrees, and the excavation is very steep, and the surface of the stone steps is uneven, as if a road was opened according to the local materials of the mountain. There are even a few sections of the table in the middle, and it feels very hard to step on, just like stepping on stalactites, and it doesn't look like there are any traces of artificial processing at all.
I walked about a hundred or so steps before I got to where the cold bench was standing. What I saw next was completely beyond my expectations, and even if I was given another 500 years to live, I would never believe that I would be able to see it with my own eyes.
I really don't know how to put it into words, as if all words seem so insignificant and pale in front of it. But I knew that I had to record it as it was, because it was probably the most cutting-edge discovery of bronze artefacts in China and the world so far.
In fact, when I walked down in the dark just now, I faintly felt a surging breath of Pengbai in my heart, this Jade Mountain Villa is backed by the northern foot of Lishan Mountain, and we are under the ground dozens of meters deep, it is impossible to say that there is no idea at all. But once this idea really came into practice for me, my heart suddenly became uneasy.
I stood next to the cold bench and quietly looked at the magnificent canyon in front of me, or more precisely, a bronze armory the size of two full-sized football fields.
The armory was divided into more than 200 slender lattices, and in the middle of each compartment, about two meters above the ground, there was a bronze pipe the thickness of a grenade, which ran through the east and west ends, and looked very magnificent. On the tube, from east to west, every half meter or so, hangs a piece of bronze armor. A rough sweep showed that there were almost fifty or sixty rows of such armor, that is, about three thousand pieces.
I tried my best to suppress the shock in my heart, and then looked back, and then there were some bronze swords, spears and other weapons, due to the limited lighting, I couldn't see very clearly, and I vaguely saw that there seemed to be a bigger thing behind me. But it was too far away from me, and now I wasn't alone, and I didn't have a flashlight, so it wasn't realistic to run over, so I jumped down with the cold bench to observe the armor.
On closer inspection, I found that the middle of the armor was empty, and there was a pipe the thickness of a rolling pin, also made of bronze, which happened to form a cross with the bronze pipe that was erected horizontally, and the armor hung on it. In addition, each piece of armor has a stone crest attached to its collar. I reached for the nearest collar and immediately dropped a layer of dark green copper shavings.
The cold bench glanced at me and said, "Maybe it's been too long and has corroded." ”
I rubbed the crumbs and said incredulously, "You say, is this really something from more than 2,000 years ago?" ”
The cold bench was silent for a moment, shook his head slightly, and the flashlight hit the armor, motioning for me to see it myself. The thought of these bronze objects, most likely left over from the Qin Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago, immediately struck me in awe, and my eyes scanned more carefully than before.
The workmanship of this armor is really very fine, I guess it is probably that the ancients first polished a whole piece of bronze to the size of a mahjong tile, and then chiseled two small round holes on it, and then connected them with flat copper wire.
This kind of craftsmanship may sound very simple, but at that time, the tools of the working people were very limited, and the process of grinding and piercing alone did not know how much time and energy was consumed, not to mention the hundreds of bronze pieces on this piece of armor. According to the calculation that each person works eight hours a day and completes ten bronze pieces, it will take more than three months to complete this piece of clothing made of nearly six or seven hundred bronze pieces.
I was immediately taken aback, my God, wouldn't it take more than nine hundred years for one person to complete nearly three or four thousand armor here? Of course, Emperor Qin would not let only one person do this.
As soon as I told Leng Bench about my thoughts, Leng Bench chuckled and said, "I'm afraid this is just the tip of the iceberg of the burial pit, and the manpower, material and financial resources he used are far more than we can imagine." With that, the cold bench walked briskly to the back. I was also very anxious in my heart, and I couldn't wait to get out of my wings immediately, fly over at once, and see what was going on, so I immediately followed closely behind the cold bench.